The aging of certain white wines is dependent on the presence of yeast strains that develop
a biofilm on the wine surface after the alcoholic fermentation. These strains belong to the …

Saccharomyces yeasts have been used for millennia for the production of beer, wine, bread,
and other fermented products. Long-term “unconscious” selection and domestication led to …

Prion proteins undergo self-sustaining conformational conversions that heritably alter their
activities. Many of these proteins operate at pivotal positions in determining how genotype is …

The human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans undergoes many phenotypic
changes to promote its survival in specific ecological niches and inside the host. To explore …

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) always function as corepressors and sometimes as
coactivators in the regulation of fungal development and secondary metabolite production …

Flor yeast strains represent a specialized group of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts used
for biological wine aging. We have sequenced the genomes of three flor strains originated …

Although transcription factors are prevalent among yeast prion proteins, the role of prion-
mediated transcriptional regulation remains elusive. Here, we show that the yeast prion …

Morphological changes are critical for host colonisation in plant pathogenic fungi. These
changes occur at specific stages of their pathogenic cycle in response to environmental …

Chromatin remodeler complexes exhibit the ability to alter nucleosome composition and
positions, with seemingly divergent roles in the regulation of chromatin architecture and …

Yeast biofilms are complex multicellular structures, in which the cells are well protected
against drugs and other treatments and thus highly resistant to antifungal therapies. Colony …